For-profit universities and colleges

The Student Debt Bubble Between 2003 and 2013 college tuition in the United States has increased by almost eighty percent. With this increase, there are few families that can pay the cost of someone attending college. So what do most families do? They borrow the money with the promise to pay it back, even though most will not be able to. Student debt has been increasing across the globe for the past century and student loan debt in the United States has been increasing exponentially the past…

Should College Athletes Be Paid? College sports have become one of the largest spectacles in our country. Hundreds of thousands of people come to watch the heat of competition, and the universities bring in millions of dollars from the sporting events. There are even video games of the sports that are made that can bring in equal amounts of money. There has been continued debate about if the athletes should be paid to play, or if the money from their scholarships is enough. There are many…

think that college football players should get paid while still in college? There have been many debates on this topic with people thinking it will have a negative impact on the college football games like it will turn into the NFL (National Football League). Issues of gambling will come to people’s minds when paying college football players like point shaving. Many universities make a lot of money off their football programs. It’s fair to say that players should get some money from the profit…

In College Inc., Frontline presents an informative, surprising, yet at times tedious documentary. The documentary provides the background in for-profit schools, while interweaving Michael Clifford’s motives towards reforming, and helping other for-profit schools maintain a sustainable income to succeed. College Inc. conveys information regarding their enrollment tactics, their unfulfilled promises of training, and the debt that accumulates with enrolling in these schools. Frontline successfully…

the non-profit association known as IAAUS, changed its name to NCAA, which has grown to a tremendous size, and currently produces 11 billion dollars in revenue annually. With all the money the NCAA has brought in, it has arisen the idea of student-athletes being paid, but student-athletes are already given a lot more than others. Many people are discussing if student-athletes should be compensated for their effort. This topic has raised a controversial debate over student-athletes in college…

whether it be through a four-year university or through apprenticeship. Because of the high demand for an educated worker, the government has begun to hand out loans to students in order to make a post secondary education more feasible. Although students are receiving more money from scholarships and grants than ever, this generation of students are also ending up more in debt than ever before. This is an effect to the shear volume of government money handed out: universities see that the…

2016. Bruni is an American journalist for Time Magazine, in this article he focuses on the difficulties that college applicants experience to be accepted to elite institutions of higher learning, but during this time there is enormous opportunities to obtain high-quality education in America that are not currently “elite.” Bruni supports his reasoning by singling out Stanford University, due to them changing the number of applicants they will take, for the class of 2018 Stanford accepted 5.1%…

Madness has become its own phenomenon,it’s not just a cool and catchy nickname.This tournament is held by NCAA to determine the best D1 college basketball team in America. Whoever wins this championship is declared the National Champion of college basketball and their team goes down in history as one of the greatest ever basketball teams to play in their University 's history. It’s the equivalent to the winning the Super Bowl to the NFL. The best part about March Madness is the interaction with…

College athletics have gained extensive popularity among Americans over the past few decades. This has resulted in an increase in cash flow for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The enormous amount of money being made off of college sports has led to the question whether students should be getting paid for their performance. The NCAA, as a whole, makes $6 billion annually. But the players themselves don’t get a dime of the money. These athletes devote about 43.3 hours per week…

Thomas Morley Prof Mitra English 097 12 December 2016 The Pay of College Athletes Are athletes more important than the regular students at big schools? What makes athletes believe they should be paid? Why should a college athlete get paid if they don’t pay for school? Many big time athletes say it is hard to be a student athlete because of all they have to do. Division 1 athletes are the best athletes in college. There is Division 1 and 2 also for the kids who aren’t as dominant as the Division…